The Flame Alphabet - Ben Marcus • BookLikes (ISBN:1299085687)

The Flame Alphabet

by: Ben Marcus (author)

Format: ebook

ISBN: 9781299085688 (1299085687)

Publish date: January 1st 2012

Publisher: Vintage Books

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Novels, Science Fiction, Humanities, Language, Literature, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Horror, Dystopia

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madbkwm rated it

11 years ago

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So, I'm not sure how to digest this book. In some ways it was great: I loved the concept, I thought the overall way it played out was interesting (language as poison and children as immune, the development of quarantine sites and experimental labs, even the way that ultimately people could live in ...

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Titles are so hard to come up with... rated it

12 years ago

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Made it to about page 50 and gave up...maybe some other time?

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rionafaith rated it

13 years ago

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I really struggled with how to rate this, because I was so ambivalent while reading it. There were sections I loved and sections that I really had to work to get through. The plot is so unique and such an interesting concept: an apocalyptic book in which the epidemic is language itself. Children's s...

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Barrita rated it

13 years ago

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Imaginen una enfermedad rara cualquiera. Los síntomas no importan en realidad. Solo piensen, á la Dr. House, en la cantidad de estudios necesarios para diagnosticarla. Exámenes de todos los fluidos posibles. Imaginen todos los diagnosticos que pueden darse. Imaginen los factores que se les ocurriría...

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